Pebbles to Boulders: Blue Girls of New Brunswick
Like every curling club across Canada at the beginning of the season, the St. John’s Curling Club in Newfoundland holds a new curler clinic. This is where our story begins. In this particular season, a...
View ArticlePebbles to Boulders: Starting Young at the Mayflower
Anyone watching national championship curling over the last 25 years has heard of the Mayflower Curling Club. On a regular basis, Mayflower teams earn the privilege to represent Nova Scotia at national...
View ArticlePebbles to Boulders: Nurturing Curlers in Sudbury
The Idylwylde Golf and Country Club in Sudbury, Ontario has long been a fixture on the curling scene of Northern Ontario. The strength of their reputation comes in part from the efforts of their youth...
View ArticlePebbles to Boulders: Organization + Fun = Success
Being organized is a key step to the success of any curling program. That’s a message I stress with program organizers. Fun is the happiness on the faces of those you are serving. Success is a relative...
View ArticlePebbles to Boulders: From Little Rocks To Scotties
Imagine, growing up in a curling family, where your life-long dream is to play in the Scotties Tournament of Hearts Canadian Womens Curling Championships. Since age 5, each winter is spent at the...
View ArticleFeatured Curling Athlete: Tracy Horgan
It was supposed to be another coronation for Rachel Homan at the 2012 Ontario women’s curling championship in Kenora, but Tracy Horgan and her team from Sudbury had other ideas. After Homan went...
View ArticlePebbles to Boulders: From the East to West
Prince Edward Island has a reputation for developing some very fine curlers. One of the brightest stars to come from the Island is Erin Carmody. Erin started her curling at the Silver Fox Yacht and...
View ArticleMeaford Curling Club adopts local schools with Capital One Rocks & Rings
Over the past few years, the Capital One Rocks & Rings program has been expanding. We’ve been encouraging local clubs to take advantage of our Adopt a School program. The Meaford Curling Club...
View ArticleShare the love of curling
I looked at the little boy and told him he didn’t need to skate to curl, and his eyes lit up. ‘I’m going to curl this fall,’ he said. It was music to my ears.
View ArticleCurling: The “gateway” to a healthy future
Canadian kids are being left out of traditional sports, especially girls, obese children, those with special needs, and kids from low income families.* We want kids to be happy and healthy for years to...
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